]]>By: robcat2075http://boingboing.net/2012/11/14/scathing-restaurant-review.html#comment-1583441
Thu, 15 Nov 2012 19:44:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=194103#comment-1583441Gee, i just guessed at the salad dressing thing. He was even more predictable and trivial than I thought.

Somehow that review was within the NYT’s journalism standards, but it Nate Silver, outside his NYT column, tweets a bet to Joe Scarborough, that merits a public reprimand from the NYT org.

]]>By: Doughttp://boingboing.net/2012/11/14/scathing-restaurant-review.html#comment-1583178
Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:51:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=194103#comment-1583178And it’s probably still better than anything else in times square!
]]>By: niktemadurhttp://boingboing.net/2012/11/14/scathing-restaurant-review.html#comment-1583034
Thu, 15 Nov 2012 13:37:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=194103#comment-1583034This would be fun in two ways:
– Ripping a plastic TV personality’s cynical enterprise a new one. But the NYT has already done that.
– Any show that does the “Next time, on a very special (Blossom, Fresh Prince, Who’s The Boss, etc)” is jumping the shark as we speak, right in front of our eyes. Jumping-the-shark-spotting is a sport I guess, like mullet hunting.

BTW, my nephew went to Six Flags Over Kentucky, spotted over thirty mullets, then on the same trip a week later, he went to Six Flags Over Georgia, where there were only three mullets to be found.

]]>By: massspecgeekhttp://boingboing.net/2012/11/14/scathing-restaurant-review.html#comment-1583007
Thu, 15 Nov 2012 12:00:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=194103#comment-1583007Santa Rosa isn’t a very big town, and I bet I’ve eaten at more than 90% of the restaurants there. The good ones (or at least the good ones I can afford) I’ve been to many times. The bad ones, like Guy’s, I’ve only been to once or twice. People like me wouldn’t keep his restaurants in business — one visit from everyone in Sonoma County wouldn’t keep you in business for more than a couple of years — so the explanation must either be locals who like swill served by waiters who don’t care, or tourists.
]]>By: ocker3http://boingboing.net/2012/11/14/scathing-restaurant-review.html#comment-1582952
Thu, 15 Nov 2012 06:32:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=194103#comment-1582952 Or perhaps the sheer horror of the experience could not be adequately conveyed without such jarring grammar
]]>By: ocker3http://boingboing.net/2012/11/14/scathing-restaurant-review.html#comment-1582950
Thu, 15 Nov 2012 06:31:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=194103#comment-1582950 He should be invited onto The Daily Show to give an in-person reading of it, as a beat poem, backed up by Tom Hanks.
]]>By: Sigmund Ausfallerhttp://boingboing.net/2012/11/14/scathing-restaurant-review.html#comment-1582791
Thu, 15 Nov 2012 01:23:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=194103#comment-1582791 This actually sounds like something from Buckaroo Banzai.
]]>By: Paul Renaulthttp://boingboing.net/2012/11/14/scathing-restaurant-review.html#comment-1582651
Wed, 14 Nov 2012 21:29:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=194103#comment-1582651I wonder how Marilyn Hegarty would have reviewed it.
]]>By: Jorphohttp://boingboing.net/2012/11/14/scathing-restaurant-review.html#comment-1582607
Wed, 14 Nov 2012 20:43:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=194103#comment-1582607 Still there by my reckoning.
]]>By: hackyhttp://boingboing.net/2012/11/14/scathing-restaurant-review.html#comment-1582593
Wed, 14 Nov 2012 20:33:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=194103#comment-1582593It’s gone. Why?
]]>By: LinkManhttp://boingboing.net/2012/11/14/scathing-restaurant-review.html#comment-1582587
Wed, 14 Nov 2012 20:29:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=194103#comment-1582587 Also known as “Ass of an Ass Sauce”
]]>By: Antlanhttp://boingboing.net/2012/11/14/scathing-restaurant-review.html#comment-1582511
Wed, 14 Nov 2012 19:03:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=194103#comment-1582511NYT is not alone…. http://observer.com/2012/10/the-crispy-crimes-of-guy-fieri/
]]>By: edgorehttp://boingboing.net/2012/11/14/scathing-restaurant-review.html#comment-1582509
Wed, 14 Nov 2012 19:01:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=194103#comment-1582509Curse you, Perry the Platypus!
]]>By: alfanovemberhttp://boingboing.net/2012/11/14/scathing-restaurant-review.html#comment-1582502
Wed, 14 Nov 2012 18:56:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=194103#comment-1582502Perhaps Fieri’s next venture could be named “Arbutus Unedo”, or the Strawberry Tree, after an ornamental shrub popularly planted in Sonoma County. It is a pretty plant, with reddish-orange fruit that looks impressive and tastes like nothing much at all..

The name is said to translate from Latin as “I ate only one.”

]]>By: Navin_Johnsonhttp://boingboing.net/2012/11/14/scathing-restaurant-review.html#comment-1582482
Wed, 14 Nov 2012 18:32:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=194103#comment-1582482 Like everybody else here, the Donkey Sauce part really jumped out at me. How…HOW? does this get brainstormed and finally put on a menu without somebody not pointing out the mental image this conjures up?

I wonder if people torture the servers with Donkey Sauce double entendres?

]]>By: fuzzyfuzzyfungushttp://boingboing.net/2012/11/14/scathing-restaurant-review.html#comment-1582476
Wed, 14 Nov 2012 18:18:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=194103#comment-1582476Arguably, the restaurant has to be both bad and self-important.

Hammering the quietly lousy of the world verges on poor taste. Puncturing the horribly engorged egos of the lousy and delusional, though…

]]>By: IronEdithKiddhttp://boingboing.net/2012/11/14/scathing-restaurant-review.html#comment-1582458
Wed, 14 Nov 2012 17:54:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=194103#comment-1582458My SO obsessively watches cooking/travel shows. I hate ‘em. Guy is the douchiest of the lot. I really can’t describe the schadenfreude I’m feeling, but I’m certain it’s more delicious than anything served at that restaurant.
]]>By: FrakSnarkhttp://boingboing.net/2012/11/14/scathing-restaurant-review.html#comment-1582443
Wed, 14 Nov 2012 17:41:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=194103#comment-1582443 *relegate
]]>By: OtherMichaelhttp://boingboing.net/2012/11/14/scathing-restaurant-review.html#comment-1582444
Wed, 14 Nov 2012 17:41:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=194103#comment-1582444Really?
]]>By: Phos0.99http://boingboing.net/2012/11/14/scathing-restaurant-review.html#comment-1582439
Wed, 14 Nov 2012 17:37:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=194103#comment-1582439I’m not a fan of Gordon Ramsay, but if ol’ Gorgar decided to do a *Very Special 2 Hour Episode* ripping that place to shreds, I’d definitely tune in.
]]>By: DreamboatSkankyhttp://boingboing.net/2012/11/14/scathing-restaurant-review.html#comment-1582437
Wed, 14 Nov 2012 17:34:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=194103#comment-1582437Sauce source.
]]>By: Gilbert Whamhttp://boingboing.net/2012/11/14/scathing-restaurant-review.html#comment-1582436
Wed, 14 Nov 2012 17:31:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=194103#comment-1582436 Would you use it on its back? Would you use it with some crack?
]]>By: SamSamhttp://boingboing.net/2012/11/14/scathing-restaurant-review.html#comment-1582427
Wed, 14 Nov 2012 17:26:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=194103#comment-1582427Maybe. There have also been other things written entirely as questions, such as the book “The Interrogative Mood” (which, as I mentioned above, I flipped through and it seemed terrible, but who knows, it might be good.)

I think this is slightly different than either of those Every question is rhetorical, and it serves to convey the author’s mounting sense of incredulity at each turn.